Running news recap: Murphy’s Law and the Santa Speedo Sprint

A fiddle lesson Saturday with George Wilson prevented my viewing of the glorious Santa Speedo Sprint, but fortune prevailed when two of my students volunteered to take video footage of the race.

Unfortunately, their attempts to get professional-level footage turned into a series of Murphy’s Law type mishaps that resulted in (1) a cracked tripod, (2) a malfunction with the audio – on both cameras – and (3) the temporary loss of a camera (the circumstances of which are too complex to explain in this post).

While the students did not accomplish their mission, their experience reminds me of the ill-fated film production of Don Quixote, which turned into the documentary “Lost In La Mancha” on the “unmaking” of a film. For my students, yesterday’s production gone wrong is a lesson on tilting at windmills.